"In a perfect world, we would not keep animals for our benefit, including pets,"

-- Tom Regan

#Animal Quotes #Perfect Quotes #Pet Quotes

“Sometimes I think I might insult people by being openly flirtatious, then snatching it back.”
“Man can have strength of character only as he is capable of controlling his faculties; of choosing a rational end; and, in its pursuit, of holding fast to his integrity against al! the might of external nature.”

Source : Adam Reid, Benjamin Wood, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Henry Brewster Stanton, Laurens Perseus Hickok (1850). “Strength and beauty: A baccalaureate sermon, delivered at Williamstown, Ms. August 17, 1851”
“Each time you indulge in the emotion of anger or the behavior of yelling at a loved one, you reinforce the neural connection and increase the likelihood that you'll do it again.”
“Even when you tear its petals off one after another, the rose keeps laughing and doesnâ€™t bend in pain. â€œWhy should I be afflicted because of a thorn? It is the thorn which taught me how to laugh.â€ Whatever you lost through fate, be certain that it saved you from pain.”
“Just as the dog loves to chew bones, the human mind loves its problems.”
“I supported Barack Obama originally. I supported him for reelection and the alternative of a Mitt Romney is very, very clear to everybody. And I think the president has done a good job in a number of areas. But one area that has concerned me from day one has been his reliance on Wall Street type people in terms of financial matters.”
“In recent times, more and more human thinking has come to assume that the idea of a universal natural law and the idea of 'God' are pointing to one and the same reality.”
“One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment.”

Source : Brom Weber, Hart Crane (1970). “Hart Crane: a biographical and critical study”

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